King James Bible believers are
faced with an array of problems to day. Of course we all know that the
multiplicity of all the new modern versions are
a big problem but another big problem is the fact that many of the worldly
publishing companies are publishing Bibles and calling them King James Bibles
when in actuality they are not. They are counterfeits.

Because the King James Bible is
in the publick domain and not copyrighted, these worldly publishing companies
think they can make minor changes to the
standard text so that they can please certain groups which translates into
extra sales for them. That's the way the modern world operates to day. All
the common ordinary Bible believer wants is the same Bible that his grandmother
had and the same Bible her grandmother had and the same Bible her grandmother
had etc. that's all.

Just give us the text that has
established itself as the standard text of the Holy Bible, an old fashioned,
Christ exalting, devil kicking, Authorized
King James Bible. To the best of my understanding this is the 1769
edition of the 1611 King James Bible with a few minor printing errors and
spellings corrected along the way in the 1800's.

Until the twenty-first century
you could get a copy of it in any nickel and dime book store. To
day you can still find it but you must proceed with caution. You
will be hard pressed to find it at all in any typical Christian book store
without some alterations to the text.

The Bible of our forefathers which
we received through process of time comes with three specific warning labels. One
is near the front. The
other is near the middle and the last one is at the very end. Let's
read them:

WARNING LABEL # 1 - Deuteronomy
4:2

2 Ye shall not add unto the
word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the
LORD your God which I command you.

WARNING LABEL # 2 - Proverbs
30:5-6

5 Every word of God is pure:
he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

6 Add thou not unto his words,
lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

WARNING LABEL # 3 - Revelation
22:18-19

18 For I testify unto every
man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall
add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written
in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of
this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and
out of the holy city, and from the
things which are written in this book.

I would like to think these worldly
publishing companies are just ignorant to the seriousness of what they
are doing. However in some cases I'm
sure that these deceptive maneuvers are being done with fore thought. In
other words they are aware of the warning labels but choose to ignore them.
They have hardened their hearts against the standard text of the Holy Bible.

Let me give you an example of
what I'm talking about. It was approximately
six months ago I purchased a King James Bible from a popular on line book
store. It was a straight text (advertised as the standard text) meaning
it had no notes, no references, no helps, and no maps. It was just
what I wanted. Just give me the Bible and if I need help with a difficult
passage I'll ask the Holy Spirit for guidance and I'll check other scriptures
for references.

Don't get me wrong. I'm
not against some of the commentaries and other Bible study tools. In
fact I consider some of them a necessity, for example a good dictionary. It's
just that commentaries, dictionaries, concordances and the like are the words
of men and not the words of God. They are not infallible. Therefore
I do not believe they should be mixed together under the same cover andbe called the word of God. In actuality it is the word of God plus the
words of a man or a group of men. In my opinion the Holy Bible should
be just the word of God only from cover to cover. That is why I prefer a
straight text.

At any rate I had bought the Bible
I thought I wanted. It had been
published by Cambridge. They have always been the giant in the industry.
In fact they are the oldest Printer and Publisher in the world. They
are supposed to be the gold standard for dependability according to many
King James Bible believers. This Bible had a nice black French Morocco
leather cover with golden coloured gilt edges. It was very nice on
the outside but when I started checking out the inside I was shocked. This
particular edition of the Cambridge Bible that calls itself a King James
Bible is not genuine. IT'S A COUNTERFEIT! It's not the Bible
of my forefathers!

Here are some of the changes I
located: Asswaged has been changed to assuaged. Basons
has been changed to basins. Chesnut has been changed to chestnut. Cloke
has been changed to cloak. Enquire has been changed to inquire. Further
has been changed to farther. Jubile has been changed to jubilee. Intreat
has been changed to entreat. Morter has been changed to mortar. Ought
has been changed to aught, and rereward has been changed to rearward.

Brother Nic, why get so upset? These
are just minor changes in spelling. Well
maybe they are, but have you never read "a little leaven leaveneth the whole
lump?" You see I believe God wrote the Bible through sinful men. I
believe God copied the Bible through sinful men. I believe God translated
the Bible through sinful men, and I believe God edited (purified) the Bible
through sinful men. So therefore I believe God gave us the exact words
in the exact order He wanted us to have them in. If that's the case
then He spelled the words exactly the way He wanted to spell them, and gave
them to us in a pure language, and that language is the standard text of
the King James Bible. This is the Bible that has stood the test of
time without any editing whatsoever and this is the Bible The Believers organization,
with God's help, intends to preserve for all future generations.

Beside all this, Cambridge has
also taken the liberty of making doctrinal changes. Notice the following:
The capital S in
the word Spirit has been changed to a lower case s in numerous passages. The capital S refers
to the Holy Spirit, the third member of the Godhead, whereas the lower case s in
the word spirit could have multiple definitions such as simply referring
to a mood or emotion. Its primary definition means to breath. All
living self moving creatures have a spirit within them. So
many definitions could apply to the word spirit when it is not capitalized.

To change the capital S in the word
Spirit to a lower case s is an attack against the Godhead, the most powerful threefold cord in
heaven and earth: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Cambridge
has made this critical error in the following places: Genesis 1:2, 41:38,
Judges 3:10, 6:34, 11:29, 13:25, 14:6, 14:19, 15:14, 1 Samuel 10:6, 10:10,
11:6, 16:13, 16:14, 19:20, 19:23, 2 Samuel 23:2, 1 Kings 18:12, 22:24,
2 Kings 2:16, 2 Chronicles 15:1, 18:23, 20:14, 24:20, Job 33:4, Isaiah
40:13, 48:16, 61:1, 63:10, 11, 14, Ezekiel 11:5, 24. For hundreds
of years Cambridge published these verses with a capital S, but now in the twenty-first century it has been
changed. Actually this so called standard text edition first hit
the market in 1993 and is being endorsed by many King James Bible believing
websites to day. I assume that they are not aware that it has been
modernized.

Here is another change that has
been made in this particular edition: the word twoedged has become two-edged. They
added a hyphen. This
word is only in the King James Bible four times (Psalms 149:6, Proverbs 5:4,
Hebrews 4:12, and Revelation 1:16.) Now check this out: they added
the hyphen in only three of the four verses. They left it without a
hyphen in Hebrews 4:12. Why? Was this a mistake or did they mean
to do it that way? Why tamper with it in the first place? Don't
say you were trying to help us Cambridge. If that's the case then please
don't try to help us any more. All we want you to do is to publish
the same standard text of the King James Bible as you have done so very well
for hundreds of years. Don't publish something that is not the standard and
call it the standard. Once you modernize spelling, change capital letters
to lower case letters and add hyphens, you are changing the standard text
in order to please modern society.

Here are some other ploys that some of these other worldly publishing companies
are pulling on an unaware publick. One thing a lot of them do is change the
spelling of words that end with the letters o-u-r to the more modern American spelling of o-r. For example armour becomes armor. Behaviour
becomes behavior. Clamour becomes clamor. Colour becomes color. Endeavour
becomes endeavor. Favour becomes favor. Honour becomes honor. Labour
becomes labor. Neighbour becomes neighbor. Odour becomes odor. Rigour
becomes rigor. Rumour becomes rumor. Valour becomes valor and
vapour becomes vapor. Well Brother Nic what's wrong with that? Remember
what we said about the warning labels? Remember what the scripture
said about a little leaven leaventh the whole lump?

Now the very worst of this battle of o-u-r vs. o-r comes
when dealing with the only begotten Son of God, our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ. The modern day counterfeiters have changed Saviour to Savior. They
have given us a six-letter Savior in place of a seven-letter Saviour. In
Bible numerics seven is the number of completeness, purity, and spiritual
perfection. On the other hand six is the number of man which is earthly
not heavenly. Every one has heard of 666. It has a bad connotation
and is not highly esteemed in Bible numerics.

The seven-letter Saviour is the
only begotten Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. The six-letter Savior
is the son of perdition, the anti christ. He wants to be like the most
High (Isaiah 14:14,) but not in a good way,
but in an evil way. He is not a follower. He's a counterfeiter. Therefore
his final destination is the lake of fire. The new versions, along
with the new age movement, and some of the King James Bible counterfeits
are preparing the way for this six-letter so called Savior. That's the way
he will spell his name, S-a-v-i-o-r not S-a-v-i-o-u-r. No thank you Satan. I'm sticking
with the seven-letter Saviour as portrayed in the old black Book that I inherited
from my forefathers.

There are many other things going
on by the worldly publishing companies. Almost
all of them have hardened their hearts against the standard text of the Holy
Bible. They do not believe God actually had His hand upon it much less
wrote it. They treat it as a product of men. That is why they
do not hesitate to publish all the different new versions. Nor do they
hesitate to change the old King James and still call it the King James. If
a person can't see the fingerprints of God upon this Book then he is either
clouded in the cabassis or he is as lost as a duck in the desert with his
head in the sand!

The rules of English grammar may
change but the King James Bible is fixed in a moment of time (the 1800's, the 1900's and for ever more) and is unchangeable. This
is the standard text and there is no other. This is the Book that spread
the gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world. This is the Book my grandmother
had and her grandmother had and her grandmother had without any alterations
(editing) whatsoever. It is basically the same Book that rolled off
the printing press in 1611. The only differences being it was changed
from Gothic type to Roman type, printer's errors were corrected and spelling
was stabilized. The King James Bible is a very old Book.

Now consider this: the scriptures
have been translated into over 1,200 languages. Of
all these over 800 languages had it translated straight from the Elizabethan
English of the King James Bible. Not from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
Not from the Latin, not from the German, but straight from the Authorized
King James. Now some of these people have learned English as a second
language. They are not familiar with these modern Americanized spellings
nor are most of the other English speaking people of the world. Can
you see what God has woven together through process of time? The Holy Bible
is from above and is a finished book from God. It is written in a pure language.
Furthermore this language is very peculiar and has been used and still is
being used in a very unique way. Let's preserve it as we received it
and quit trying to change it!

QUICK CHECK LIST WHEN BUYING A KING JAMES BIBLE

Scripture Reference

The Real Bible

Counterfeit

GENESIS 1:1

heaven

heavens

GENESIS 1:2

Capital S (Spirit)

lower case s (spirit)

GENESIS 8:1

asswaged

assuaged

GENESIS 11:3

throughly

thoroughly

GENESIS 11:3

morter

mortar

GENESIS 12:1

shew

show

GENESIS 21:26

to day

today

GENESIS 23:8

intreat

entreat

GENESIS 24:57

enquire

inquire

GENESIS 30:37

chesnut

chestnut

GENESIS 31:42

labour

labor

GENESIS 41:38

Capital S (Spirit)

lower case s (spirit)

EXODUS 8:23

to morrow

tomorrow

EXODUS 24:6

basons

basins

EXODUS 25:30

shewbread

showbread

EXODUS 25:30

alway

always

LEVITICUS 25:9

jubile

jubilee

NUMBERS 10:25

rereward

rearward

NUMBERS 22:26

further

farther

1 SAMUEL 18:6

musick

music

PSALMS 149:6

twoedged

two-edged

ISAIAH 59:17

cloke

cloak

MATTHEW 1:19

publick

public

MATTHEW 4:1

Capital S (Spirit)

lower case s (spirit)

LUKE 2:11

Saviour

Savior

PHILIPPIANS 3:17

ensample

example

1 TIMOTHY 6:20

so called

so-called

JAMES 4:14

vapour

vapor

This is just a very short list
of the changes being made by some of the worldly publishing companies. If
you find one counterfeit word then that is a pretty good indication there
are many more. Don't buy that
Bible, check elsewhere.

The best place I know to purchase
a good Bible at a reasonable price is at Bearing Precious Seed Ministry. They sell them at cost. However they do expect
a donation with each purchase. This is a church ministry, not a business.